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INDIA: Pakistan and Bangladesh want India to honour cotton contracts
Pakistan and Bangladesh have demanded that the contracts for supply of cotton made by Indian growers before exports were suspended last month should be honoured. In separate letters to the Indian gove...
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GLOBAL: Global Apparel Market Business Update 1st quarter 2010
US apparel sales were down by 5.2% in 2009 while clothing imports fell by 11.8%. By contrast, EU sales of textile, clothing and footwear were up by 2.6% in December 2009, and sales of fabrics, apparel...
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GLOBAL: World cotton stocks situation tight in 2010-2011
Global cotton ending stocks are falling by an estimated 18% this season (2009/10), to 10.5 million tons, the smallest level in six years: cotton production is declining while mill use is rebounding. I...
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EU, Asia Free Trade talks threaten Africa Apparel Exports
Kenyan textile producers face stiffer competition in their search for an alternative market as the low-cost Asian producers push for free trade arrangements with the European Union.
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Bangladesh Receives Large Orders From Japan
Two large Japanese companies planned to buy made-in-Bangladesh apparel merchandises.
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Egypt: Arafa Holding Looks Forward on Doubling Profits on Steady Sales.
Arafa Holding, Egypt's biggest garment exporter, hopes to keep sales in 2010/2011 at last year's levels of $332 million while doubling profits to $20 million on improved margins in the UK and higher U...
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India issues license for Cotton Exports to Pakistan
The Indian government has now begun permitting and issuing licenses for exports of 263,000 tons of raw cotton to Pakistan after re-validation of the cotton contracts.
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Pakistan Might Not Meet Export Targets
Pakistan's textile export target of US$10.5 billion, set for 2009-10 (July 1-June 30), is likely to be missed by US$1.5 billion, following yarn shortage, increase in electricity and gas tariff and mor...
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New Zealand: Future Growth for Textile Industry lies in Exporting
A strong message has been passed on to representatives of the textile sector that, exports of textile goods is the field, which they should be tabbing at for their future growth.
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PAKISTAN: Textile Minister says new cotton policy being formulated
Federal Minister for Textile Industry,Rana Muhammad Farooq Saeed Khan has disclosed that government is formulating a new comprehensive cotton policy to safeguard the interests of all the stakeholders....
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CHINA: Pricey Cotton Hits Garment Makers Hard
Life is getting even harder for China's textile manufacturers as they struggle to cope with a beleaguered world market for their exports.
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GERMANY: Limited Availability of Cotton
The demand predominantly increased in contrast to the previous week according to merchants' reports while some spinning industries have only collected information on the current cotton prices and the...
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INDIA: Textiles Exports may touch $24 Billion in 2010-11
With the revival of demand in Western markets, India's textile exports may grow up to $24 billion in 2010-11 from an estimated $20 billion in the previous fiscal, industry and government officials hav...
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Egypt: 91% Proportion of the Cotton Crop Grown.
"The Total cultivated area of cotton crop, for the season 2010/2011, until the middle of this month reached 299,836 acres with a percentage 91.29% of the targeted cultivated area, with an increase 30....
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Global Organic Cotton Market Grows 35 Percent.
Despite the recession, 2009 was a dynamic year for the organic cotton sector. Global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textile products reached an estimated $4.3 billion in 2009, accordi...
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USA: President signs Haiti Textile Trade Bill.
US President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill to extend duty-free benefits for some knit and woven apparel products imported into the US from Haiti in an effort to aid reconstruction in the ear...
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Global fibre production exceeds 70mt in 2009
Global fibre consumption rose 4.2% to 70.5 million tonnes in 2009, according to Oerlikon’s “The Fiber Year”, due to be published in June.
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Botswana: Textile Revival Package To Boost Competitiveness.
The Government of Botswana has approved a P38 million revival package for the textile industry, out of which assistance has been provided to 12 textile companies amounting to P1.2 million, revealed an...
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Egypt's Arafa to distribute bonus share
Arafa Holding, Egypt's biggest garment exporter, will distribute a dividend of one share for every 10 owned, the firm said on Monday.
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US sends protest to WTO against India
The United States requested the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to examine whether India still qualifies for concession, which allows it to give export subsidies to the domestic textile and apparel sec...